The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.